The most active is Conficker - his methods of reproduction in a secure firewall network environment have proved most effective. Interestingly, the level of infection with the virus home PCs below, according to experts, this is due to the fact that anti-virus software home systems are usually updated automatically.
Taterf worm was detected in the test array PC 156% more than in the second half of 2008, and especially of the players online role-playing games (MMORPG). The success of his attack is linked not only with the use of social engineering, as with the use of unprotected plug drives and uncontrolled file-sharers. At the same time, the prevalence of viruses of the family Zlob has declined considerably, with 21.1 million infected PCs in 2007 to 2.3 million in the first half of 2009
Products and services Microsoft removed malware for 1 st half of 2009 with more than 13 million PCs (in the 2 nd half of 2008 - from 16.8 million PCs).
According to the report, the greatest danger, as always, are fake anti-virus software: millions of people have been the victim «scareware», programs that display false warnings about the infection, hoping to scare users and force it to download a fake antivirus.
The infection rate and rating of risks vary depending on the region. The most affluent are Japan, Austria and Germany, where regulations are in place to counter the use of pirated software, and implemented projects in cooperation of Internet providers and others organizations for user training, network security, identify botnets and countering them.
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